"
A fierce denial was on the lips of Donald Pike, but he had not the
courage to utter it. He saw that something more than denials would be
necessary to explain matters. The Westerner was as speechless as Pike,
and Merriwell turned away.
"I reckon we'll have a little explanation of this, Pike!" were the words
Merry heard as he reached the head of the stairs. They were spoken in an
awesome tone of voice, and came from Badger's lips.
Then the door closed with a bang, and he knew that the Kansan had barred
the way of Pike's escape from the room. The next morning Frank received
this note:
"MR. FRANK MERRIWELL: Pike and I had a settlement last night. He
tried to lie out of the thing, but I made him confess to the whole
truth. Then I kicked him down-stairs. We are not rooming together
any more whatever. BUCK BADGER."
CHAPTER IV.
AT THE HOME OF WINNIE LEE.
Frank Merriwell seemed the personification of spring as he approached
the residence of Fairfax Lee, the next afternoon. Spring is the time
when the wine of life flows warm through the veins of Nature. Its face
holds the bloom of youth and the smile of hope. Its heart is all aglow
with the joy of living. The golden summer is before it; and it has no
dead past, for the winter seems to belong to the year that has gone.
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